We drove to Pierre, SD via Wall. We stopped at WallDrug for breakfast and to look around. We all enjoyed seeing Wall Drug and arrived at Pierre app 2PM and setup shop. Grandma & Grandpa Moyer drove up to see the kids ad we spent the four days there fishing and enjoying seeig each other. Misti and I managed a morning of prairdog hunting and Adam even got a motorcycle ride. [View Full Entry]

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These are some of the places we visited while staying at Oahe: Oahe Chapel (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) - In 1874, Reverend Thomas L. Riggs, a Congregationalist minister and his first wife, Cornelia Margaret Foster, established the Oahe Mission to serve the Sioux Indians of central South Dakota. It was built on the site of an old Arikara Indian village called Ti Tanke Ohe, later shortened to "Oahe." The name of the mission was eventually given not only to the mission, but also to the dam and lake that now cover the site. In the beginning, a [View Full Entry]

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We started doing our volunteer work on Monday, April 20. It was very, very cold that morning and I was saying to myself "what in &#$% am I doing in South Dakota this time of the year." I was so bundled up it looked like I was dressed to be working in the Arctic, and I was still cold. It stayed cold almost every day, same conditions -- cold, overcast and windy -- there were also days when it was drizzly and damp. As it turned out, according to the rangers who live here, spring was a long time coming this [View Full Entry]

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These are some photos of the RV Park where we are staying at Oahe Downriver State Park. It is one of three campgrounds located within the state park. It is campground #3 and is the smallest of the three. Since we are volunteers, we are on a site that has full hookups (electric, water and sewer). However, the only other site to have full hookups is the one which will be used by the Campground Hosts, all the other campsites have only electricity. The Campground Hosts are not here yet, but should be coming in around the middle of May. Since [View Full Entry]

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We returned from the Florida Keys the middle of March after five months of enjoying the tropical winter weather (meaning warm), the aqua ocean, the sand in our shoes (if you are a Conch do you ever get the sand out of your shoes?), and eating our fill of seafood (almost). We spent three months at Curry Hammock State Park from October 1, 2007 to January 1, 2008 after which we moved to Long Key State Park where we stayed for two months. After leaving the Keys (kicking and screaming the whole way), we returned home for a couple of weeks. [View Full Entry]

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Got back from a trip to South Dakota late last evening. On the agenda was a stayover in Pierre, SD where I had a couple hours to drive around the city. I have been to Pierre several times but it's been a year since my last visit. The town is experiencing a little bit of a building boom with some new retail and housing being built. For a capitol city, it's a small city (about 14,000); however, it is extremely pretty. According to wikipedia, Pierre is one of only 5 state capitols which is not served by an interstate highway system [View Full Entry]

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